Eloah Angeline Tackitt was the daughter of Martin D. and Cynthia
Tackitt, born abt. 1830 in Arkansas. She married
John Milum Jones, the son of John
Jones, Sr., in Johnson County, Arkansas around 1852, and they resided
in Spadra Township. John and Eloah had two children born in Johnson
County: Sophronia Jones, born abt. 1853, and Felix Marion Jones, born
15 December 1855.
Eloah, her husband
John Milum Jones, daughter
Sophronia, her widowed
mother Cynthia Tackitt, and 6 of her
7 siblings (Pleasant,
Marion,
Seaborn,
Matilda,
James M. and
Jones M. Tackitt) all died in the 1857
Mountain Meadows Massacre. Eloah's son Felix Marion Jones survived the
Massacre and was returned to relatives in Arkansas in 1859. Eloah was
27 years old when she died.
© 2008 A.C. Wallner for the Mountain Meadows Association. All rights
reserved
Inscription:
IN MEMORIAM
IN THE VALLEY BELOW BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 7 AND 11, 1857, A COMPANY OF
MORE THAN 120 ARKANSAS EMIGRANTS LED BY CAPT. JOHN T. BAKER AND CAPT.
ALEXANDER FANCHER WAS ATTACKED WHILE EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. THIS
EVENT IS KNOWN IN HISTORY AS THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
ELOAH ANGELINE TACKITT JONES, 27
Please note that the names of the victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows
Massacre that appear here are those who we have personally researched
and verified as actual victims. In some cases this list will differ
from the names that were inscribed on the 1990 Monument on Dan Sill
Hill.
Leave
virtual flowers - MMA FIND A GRAVE
MEMORIAL
FOR
ELOAH ANGELINE (TACKITT) JONES
